{White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus
thyoides}, or {Cham[ae]cyparis sph[ae]roidea}, a slenderevergreenconifer which grows in the so-called cedar
swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which
is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
--Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
lofty tree ({Icica altissima} syn. {Bursera altissima})
whose fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as
it is not attacked by insect.

{White ibis} (Zo["o]l.), an American ibis ({Guara alba})
having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the
wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and
the Southern United States. Called also {Spanish curlew}.

{White miller}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The common clothes moth.
(b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma
Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black
spots; -- called also {ermine moth}, and {virgin
moth}. See {Woolly bear}, under {Woolly}.

{White money}, silver money.

{White mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the albino variety of the common
mouse.

{White mullet} (Zo["o]l.), a silvery mullet ({Mugil curema})
ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; --
called also {blue-back mullet}, and {liza}.

{White nun} (Zo["o]l.), the smew; -- so called from the white
crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its
head, which give the appearance of a hood.

{White rabbit}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage.
(b) An albino rabbit.

{White rent},
(a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; --
opposed to black rent. See {Blackmail}, n., 3.
(b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by
every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of
Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.]